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Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishIn the economic and social field the state is under a priority duty:
a) Within the overall framework of a sustainable development strategy, to promote an increase in people's social and economic well-being and quality of life, especially those of the most disadvantaged persons;
b) To promote social justice, ensure equal opportunities and carry out the necessary corrections to inequalities in the distribution of wealth and income, particularly by means of the fiscal policy;
… (Art. 81) - PortugueseIncumbe prioritariamente ao Estado no âmbito económico e social:
a) Promover o aumento do bem-estar social e económico e da qualidade de vida das pessoas, em especial das mais desfavorecidas, no quadro de uma estratégia de desenvolvimento sustentável;
b) Promover a justiça social, assegurar a igualdade de oportunidades e operar as necessárias correcções das desigualdades na distribuição da riqueza e do rendimento, nomeadamente através da política fiscal;
... (Art. 81)
Public Institutions and Services
- English(1) The state authority shall make appropriate provisions for the realization of a person’s right to work, to self education and social welfare at times of old age, sickness or disability and in other cases of incapacity. Without prejudice to those rights, the state authority shall make provisions to ensure that every person earns his livelihood.
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Public Institutions and Services
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The family is the fundamental nucleus of society and has the right to the protection of it and of the State. The person, the family and the community are protagonist elements of the plan of human development of the nation. (Art. 70)
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La familia es el núcleo fundamental de la sociedad y tiene derecho a la protección de ésta y del Estado. La persona, la familia y la comunidad son elementos protagónicos del plan de desarrollo humano de la nación. (Art. 70)
Public Institutions and Services
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(b) The Union shall enact necessary laws for Civil Services personnel to have security and sufficiency of food, clothing and shelter, to get maternity benefits for married women in service, and to ease livelihood for welfare of retired Service personnel. (Sec. 26) - Burmese
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(ခ) နိုင်ငံတော်သည် နိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်းများ၏ လုပ်ငန်းခွင်အာမခံချက်ရရှိရေး၊ စားဝတ်နေမှု ဖူလုံရေး၊ အိမ်ထောင်ရှင်အမျိုးသမီးဝန်ထမ်းများ မီးဖွားခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ အကျိုးခံစားခွင့်ရရှိရေး နှင့် အငြိမ်းစားဝန်ထမ်းများ စားဝတ်နေမှု သက်သာချောင်ချိရေးတို့အတွက် လိုအပ် သည့် ဥပဒေများ ပြဌာန်းရမည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၂၆)
Public Institutions and Services
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(5) Parents taking care of their children shall have the right to assistance provided by the State.
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(5) Rodičia, ktorí sa starajú o deti, majú právo na pomoc štátu.
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Public Institutions and Services
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(2) The State must adopt reasonable policies and measures, within the limits of the resources available to it, to ensure that children—
(a) enjoy family or parental care, or appropriate care when removed from the family environment;
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Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishThe law will established the obligatory and complete [integral] system of social security for the dependent workers and their families. Its extension will be promoted to all the sectors of the population.
The services of the social security system may be public, private or mixed, and in all cases will be supervised by the State.
… (Art. 95) - SpanishEl sistema obligatorio e integral de seguridad social para el trabajador dependiente y su familia será establecido por la ley. Se promoverá su extensión a todos los sectores de la población.
Los servicios del sistema de seguridad social podrán ser públicos, privados o mixtos, y en todos los casos estarán supervisados por el Estado.
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Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishThe Congress shall give highest priority to the enactment of measures that protect and enhance the right of all the people to human dignity, reduce social, economic, and political inequalities, and remove cultural inequities by equitably diffusing wealth and political power for the common good.
To this end, the State shall regulate the acquisition, ownership, use, and disposition of property and its increments. (Art. XIII, Sec. 1) - FilipinoDapat pag-ukulan ng Kongreso ng pinakamataas na prayoriti ang pagsasabatas ng mga hakbangin na mangangalaga at magpapatingkad sa karapatan ng lahat ng mga mamamayan sa dignidad na pantao, magbabawas sa mga di pagkakapantay-pantay na panlipunan, pangkabuhayan, at pampulitika, at papawi sa mga di pagkakapantay-pantay na pagkalinangan sa pamamagitan ng ekwitableng na pagpapalaganap ng kayamanan at kapangyarihang pampulitika para sa kabutihan ng lahat.
Tungo sa mga mithiing ito, dapat regulahin ng Estado ang pagtatamo, pagmamay-ari, paggamit, at paglilipat ng ariarian at ng mga bunga nito. (Art. XIII, Seksyon 1)
Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishCitizens have the right to social protection that includes the right to social provision in cases of complete, partial or temporary disability, the loss of the principal wage-earner, unemployment due to circumstances beyond their control and also in old age, and in other cases established by law.
This right is guaranteed by general mandatory state social insurance on account of the insurance payments of citizens, enterprises, institutions and organisations, and also from budgetary and other sources of social security; by the establishment of a network of state, communal and private institutions to care for persons incapable of work.
Pensions and other types of social payments and assistance that are the principal sources of subsistence, shall ensure a standard of living not lower than the minimum living standard established by law. (Art. 46) - UkrainianГромадяни мають право на соціальний захист, що включає право на забезпечення їх у разі повної, часткової або тимчасової втрати працездатності, втрати годувальника, безробіття з незалежних від них обставин, а також у старості та в інших випадках, передбачених законом.
Це право гарантується загальнообов'язковим державним соціальним страхуванням за рахунок страхових внесків громадян, підприємств, установ і організацій, а також бюджетних та інших джерел соціального забезпечення; створенням мережі державних, комунальних, приватних закладів для догляду за непрацездатними.
Пенсії, інші види соціальних виплат та допомоги, що є основним джерелом існування, мають забезпечувати рівень життя, не нижчий від прожиткового мінімуму, встановленого законом. (Стаття 46)
Public Institutions and Services
- English(1) The law to be applied with respect to any pensions benefits that were granted to any person before Independence Day shall be the law that was in force at the date on which those benefits were granted or any law in force at a later date that is not less favourable to that person.
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(4) All pensions benefits shall (except to the extent to which, in the case of benefits under the Widows’ and Orphans’ Pensions Act or under any law amending or replacing that Act, they are a charge on a fund established by that Act or by any such law and have been duly paid out of that fund to the person or authority to whom payment is due) be a charge on the general revenues of Belize.
(5) In this section, “pensions benefits” means any pensions, compensation, gratuities or other like allowances for persons in respect of their service as public officers or for the widows, children, dependents or personal representatives of such persons in respect of such service.
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